To push WordPress to come up with better daily prompt questions

My mission is simple, and it has nothing to do with writing more often or posting more content.

My mission is to push WordPress to come up with better daily prompt questions—questions that actually inspire writers to sit down and write something meaningful, honest, and worth keeping.

Right now, too many daily prompts feel like placeholders. They ask safe questions. Easy questions. Questions that lead to quick answers and forgettable posts. They keep people writing, but they don’t make people think.

And that feels like a missed opportunity.

A good prompt shouldn’t ask for an opinion. It should ask for reflection. It should make a writer pause, maybe even feel a little uncomfortable, before the first sentence comes out. The best questions don’t invite surface-level answers—they invite lived experience.

Questions like:

What part of your life looks successful from the outside but feels unfinished on the inside?

That’s not a throwaway prompt. That’s a doorway.

Or:

What is something you once chased relentlessly that, in hindsight, didn’t actually matter?

You can’t answer that without revisiting decisions, priorities, and time spent.

Some of the most powerful prompts aren’t loud at all. They’re quiet and personal:

What truth about yourself took you the longest to accept—and why did you resist it?

That question alone can turn into a post someone’s afraid to publish but glad they wrote.

Others push writers to examine character, not achievements:

When have you chosen peace over being right, and what did that decision cost you—or save you?

Or to notice the small things that reveal big truths:

What part of your daily life feels insignificant but actually reveals who you really are?

Two prompts I think every writer should wrestle with at some point are these:

What moment in your life forced you to grow up faster than you were ready for?

And:

What lesson did you learn the hard way that no book, teacher, or mentor could have taught you?

Those questions don’t come from theory. They come from living.

And finally, the one question that holds all the others together:

If someone read everything you’ve ever written, what would they learn about what truly matters to you?

That’s why this is my mission.

I don’t want WordPress to give us more prompts. I want them to give us better questions. Questions that respect writers enough to believe they have something real to say—if someone just asks the right thing.

Writing has the power to preserve wisdom, mistakes, growth, and perspective. The least we can do is start with prompts that are worthy of that power.

That’s the mission.